| Summary: | The author, while reconstructing the history of his generation — contemporaries ofWorld War 2 - explores the youth culture of the 1960’s. It was the final period of the youth socialization of WW2 contemporaries and others born in 1940’s. Their external life conditions were changing rapidly, while the social environment was changing at a slower pace. They began to influence change in the forms and content of cultural processes. The term ‘culture’ is used here meaning the field of education, art, literature, everyday communication and partially the field of ethics.The external factors which determined the cultural consciousness of the 15-25 year olds in Soviet Russia were as follows:Information and facts from foreign cultures, which were often perceived in the USSR in a wrong way.The Scientific & Technical Revolution — the result of a highly developed scientific culture which was used to influence the mass understanding of culture.This article explores the significant locations, levels, and cells of society where the young people perceived cultural experiences: these were families, circles of friends, the army, work, educational collectives, sometimes containing dozens and thousands of individuals who were not familiar with each other.The key essence of the text is in itself, as the conclusions that it draws are not original. The West has imposed on us not only the arms race and a search for allies, but also the consumer race, which infected the tastes and vanity of our youths with Western fashion, music and dance. It has also imposed the longing for an abstract non-class humanity onto the minds of the more thoughtful and sensitive individuals. These influences have contributed to the fall of t
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